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Texas, United States

Dallas, Texas, US

Aligned against the Logistics and Global Supply Chain (GSC) business units - Overseeing the delivery of key technical business solutions and capabilities supporting the Logistics and GSC teams - Liaison between business and IT teams, managing demand and strategy development - Point of escalation to assist in resolving stakeholder issues- Vendor contact for.

Irvine, California, US

Lead the headquarters IT initiatives for the AdvantaClean brand by providing strategic and operational leadership to drive delivery of solutions that support the 100 franchisee business units.- Lead a project team in the delivery of a new CRM SaaS solution for the franchisee - Oversaw IT budget and resources for the AdvantaClean business unit- Coordinated.

Oslo, NO

Engaging with clients to identify requirements and opportunities where Crayon can provide service offerings in support of cloud infrastructure, data warehousing, application development and AI/ML.- Leading discovery & requirements gathering sessions with clients- Coordinating with delivery teams on estimation efforts of solutions- Develop and negotiate.

Dallas, Texas, US

• Lead one of the company’s three priority transformation initiatives. This program was designed to identify and bring enterprise-wide change to better support the customer. This program will allow Freeman to better.
• Provided Program Management by organizing the program into work-streams and establishing scope, work streams, resources, deliverables, and project plans for each team
• Coordinated the financial planning and estimating process for current and future needs supporting the development and rollout of the capabilities
• Coordinated resources across work streams
• Tracked overall Program status and reporting to Sponsor and Steering Committee on a weekly basis
• Lead bi-weekly Steering Committee meetings and overall program communication to the enterprise

Providing IT Consulting services. Currently working with some small / mid-size businesses in modernization of their business applications, security, hardware, and infrastructure environments. Past large and Fortune 500 clients include Diageo, Syngenta, SC Johnson and Dean Foods.

Supported the Net Revenue Management (NRM) agenda, Diageo brought me back to lead a priority project supporting Pricing Reimbursement Management.* Ran a Proof of Concept to allow for vendor selection through qualitative and quantitative analysis, and development of business case and funding requests* Coordinated the vendor negotiations and contract by.

Syngenta is a company with $16B in annual sales which focuses on chemicals, seed and fertilizer to the agricultural sector. Served as a NA IS Business Partner working with key business stakeholders to define the IT strategy in support of the business objectives and to make recommendations for legacy systems deemed in scope.* Coordinated the overall NA IS.

Served as Global Program PMO and assisted in managing Diageo’s Digital Social Media platform* Coordinated the mobilization of project teams and SaaS vendor solutions which involved contract negotiations, architecture design, project mobilization and onboarding of vendors* Led delivery of the Social Listening Program by working with work-stream Project.

Served as the Global Strategic Demand Business Partner aligned against the Commercial Finance team* Developed a strategic business partnership with Commercial Finance. Served as the strategic interface with the senior leaders and the Global Process Owners for the purpose of business/IT strategy development, solution discovery, risk management and.

Served as General Project Manager to oversee single family house re-model. Manged budget, vendor selection, design and overall coordination of re-model project.

Served as the IS Global Business Partner for the Lawn & Garden (L&G) business.* Developed a roadmap of capabilities to strategically outline the sequence of delivery of solutions designed to meet L&G business objectives* Managing the pre-sanctioning phase of projects to define scope, developing business case, and worked with the business to secure.

Requested to lead Dean’s #1 IT Project by delivering a new reporting capability for the Logistics team* Worked with the business to define their requirements and developed a roadmap of projects which will support their business needs as well as repair the business relationship with IT* Managed a team of 30 to successfully deliver the first project which.

London, GB

Financial Planning Led a team of 18 full time and 20 part time project resources in the replacement of the financial management tool, Cognos ePlanning, with the IBM TM1 solution. Oversaw a project budget of $4MM USD which will support 4 lines of business in defining a new solution for Financial planning. Standardizing and leveraging TM1 improvements where.

London, GB

SAP Commercial Planning Led a dedicated team of 22 with a mixture of US and UK resources to implement the Diageo SAP Commercial Planning solution for Diageo Sales, Finance and Distributor network. Taking the high level scope approved by the Steering Committee, managed moving this through mobilization which included developing org structures, securing.

London, GB

Mexico Electronic Invoicing Directed an upgrade to SAP to support local Mexican government changes to electronic invoicing. Worked with the business in mobilization and developed various alternatives to address the new government regulation. Funding was not secured, however in the process of shutting down the project a manual work around process was.

London, GB

Global IS Change Implementation Lead Managed the Global IS organization changes as they impacted the Architecture & Design team. Worked closely with the VP of this team to get this group briefed on their new specific roles and responsibilities. Facilitated the development of RACI documents and key items required to successfully integrate this team into the.

London, GB

• Jamaica Project STAR Managed a $2MM systems upgrade to the Red Stripe SAP and Route Accounting Hand Held Systems. A key objective of this project was to upgrade the Red Stripe hand held system software (RAS) and to.
• After an orientation of Jamaica business, immediately saw gaps in systems processing and architected a new way forward allowing Red Stripe to use SAP as their master system vs. master data entry into two systems.
• Identified system-to-system and process deficiencies.
• Navigated challenges in market complexities, culture and limited resources and mitigated ongoing issues, facilitating many conversations between groups that weren’t otherwise willingly talk. This allowed decisions and.
• Enhanced systems were implemented and improved data quality, reduced errors and closed identified control gaps previously identified.
• Red Stripe was able to pass a follow up Audit based on a successful implementation of this project

London, GB

Provided IT leadership and Relationship Management to the Sales team in the Latin American and Caribbean region (LA&C). Facilitated the development of the Annual Operating Plan (AOP) and representation of the requested items for the region. Provided two-way communication to/from IS and the business within the region. Worked closely with the Hub Sales.

London, GB

• Diageo initiated this transformational initiative to assess and set the way for our Front Office agenda. The object was to gain expertise in this area from other companies and to assess Diageo’s capabilities and gaps.
• Working directly with the business to assess and defined the commercial and systems requirements for enhanced CRM / Front Office capabilities for Diageo.
• Worked as part of a cross functional / cross geography team to develop a roadmap which included plans against Sales Force Automation, Scorecarding, Joined Up Business Planning, Category Insights, and Trade Investment.
• Instrumental in defining the Category and Shopper Insights (CSI) capability leveraging commercial background skills in Category Management.
• Assess current expertise in the CRM area from various business units around the globe including Thailand, Australia, GB, Spain and US markets to then develop gap assessments and recommended processes to adopt for this.
• Managed the Business Case delivery project for this $100s of million dollar investment which required and received Diageo Board approval and was approved based on the business case developed.

London, GB

Provided IT leadership to the National Accounts and Canadian Executive teams. Business Partner managing business initiatives with Delivery teams and also served as the IT conduit into National Accounts / Canada. Worked closely with the National Accounts President in helping to shape the business. Served on the National Accounts Executive Leadership team to.

London, GB

Managed the development and support of commercial applications. Developed the Retail Pricing Application (RPA) for our distributors to service Wal*Mart used by over 600 distributors to set prices for Wal*Mart stores on a daily basis. Coordinated the Next Generation Growth distributor transition for South West and Central IMC markets by working with.

London, GB

Managed general day-to-day IT activities and operations for the Southwest IMC market providing communications both up stream and down-stream related to business activities in the SW market. Led efforts to collect account level sales (Account Sold) data from distributors which provided Diageo with increased market visibility to sales and marketing efforts.

Bs, Business Computer Information Systems

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Business Computer Information Systems